BIS => 2025 04 18
2LP - INTERNAL AFFAIRS / FIRST GENER
2014 => 2024

IN STOCK
2LP - TUFF KONG RECORDS
2014 => 2022

IN STOCK
2LP - JELLOWSTONE
2014 => 2024

BIS => 2025 05 02
1LP - GET ON DOWN
1972 => 2014

BIS => 2025 03 28
2LP - NATURE SOUNDS
2014 => 2024

IN STOCK
LIMITED TO 500 UNITS
COLOR HELLFIRE
2LP - WAR MEDIA
2014 => 2024

IN STOCK
LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES
BLACC TATTOO INK-IN-CLEAR COLORED VINYL
GATEFOLD JACKET
NUMBERED OBI
2LP - GET ON DOWN
2014 => 2024

BIS => 2025 05 02
COLOR = WHITE VINYL
1LP - GET ON DOWN
2006 => 2014

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
7 INCH - UBIQUITY RECORDS
2014 => 2023

BIS => 2025 05 02
2LP - CINEMATIC MUSIC GROUP
2014

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
7 INCH - OUTTA SIGHT NORTHERN
2014

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
7 INCH - OUTTA SIGHT NORTHERN
2014

SOLD OUT
2LP - METAL FACE RECORDS
2004 => 2014

BIS => 2024 02 02
1LP - MR BONGO
1974 => 2014

BIS => 2023 12 01
1LP - ANALOG AFRICA
2014

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
7 INCH - OUTTA SIGH
1975 => 2014

BIS => 2025 05 02
COLOR = NEON GREEN AND NEON CORAL VINYL DISCS
2LP - COALMINE RECORDS
2014 => 2023

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
2LP - BGP
2014

SOLD OUT
1LP - SOUNDWAY RECORDS
2014

SOLD OUT
1LP - MR BONGO
2014

SOLD OUT
1LP - MR BONGO
1977 => 2014

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
7 INCH - EXPANSION
2014

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
7 INCH - OUTTA SIGHT
2014

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
2LP - LIGHT IN THE ATTIC
2014

SOLD OUT
1LP - ACE RECORDS
2014

SOLD OUT
1LP - STONES THROW
2014

SOLD OUT
RSD 2023
2LP - UBIQUITY RECORDS
COLOR = TRANSLUCENT TAN WITH BROWN SPLATTER
2014 => 2023

BIS => 2025 05 02
2LP - NOW-AGAIN
2014

TRACKLIST
A1 Introduction
A2 Push Na Ya
A3 El Gusto
A4 Transition >S<
A5 Karadeniz
A6 The Spirit Of Gine
B1 Transition >T<
B2 Girma's Lament
B3 Sharpville Massacre
B4 Samai Thaqil
C1 Jo Nibunga
C2 Omebele (Makossa)
C3 M'Hammad
C4 Transition >A<
C5 Who's Foolin' Who?
C6 Transition >C<
D1 Hymnin S
D2 Bring It On Down
D3 Mission Control
D4 Kaifa Part 1+2

DESCRIPTION
Karl Hector aka the German producer and guitarist JJ Whitefield, Whitefield is the visionary behind the Poets of Rhythm and the Whitefield Brothers, the ensembles whose rough analog sound and return to the funk archetypes of the late 60s to early 70s paved the way for labels like Daptone, Truth & Soul, Timmion. Whitefield, along with Thomas Myland and Zdenko Curlija, founded Karl Hector and The Malcouns in the early 2000s. Their debut, Sahara Swing, saw release on Now-Again in 2008. The album swung with influences from across the African diaspora and set the stage for a cult, but influential following. Festival promoters intrigued by the possibility of resurrecting the careers of once forgotten African mavericks from Ghana's Ebo Taylor to the progenitors of Zambia's Zamrock scene brought Hector and crew across Europe playing festivals for ecstatic fans. A grueling tour schedule made recording a follow up album to Sahara Swing quite the challenge, and as a result, the band opted to release limited edition, hand-silkscreened EP's, which continued to show their deft handling of musics from Eastern and Northern Africa alongside Western psychedelia, jazz and funk. Whitefield gave himself 2013 to finish the album that would become Unstraight Ahead, which will see release on Now-Again this summer. Unstraight Ahead finds the band exploring territories even outside of the expansive scope of Sahara Swing. On this album, the West African sounds of Ghana and Mali meet the East African sounds of Mulatu Astatke's Ethiopian jazz and are tied together with the groove heavy experimentalism of The Malcouns' 70s Krautrock godfathers: Can, of course, but also more obscure and equally adventurous groups like Agitation Free, Ibliss and Tomorrow's Gift. We look to Middle Eastern funk and psychedelic fusions, and to various ethnic records for sound and phrasing, Whitefield states. We're trying to combine the global experimentalism of Krautrock with the backbeat of funk. This explains how songs in uneven meters 5/4, 7/8 always sound so accessible and natural on Unstraight Ahead. It's mainly an instrumental affair, but guest artists appear throughout, from across the African diaspora to those from the worldly Krautrock forebears of their German fatherland: it's Marja, daughter of Embryo founder Christian Burchard, whose vocals open the album. It's an album out of time, one that couldn't have been made in the era its aural aesthetics reference, as its scope is so broad. But it's an album focused by funk and an ambition to expand funk's reaches. The Malcouns including Poets of Rhythm songwriter and vocalist Bo Baral - created their own instruments to fashion an album that stands alongside the great albums of its progenitors but charges Unstraight Ahead into a curious musical future.

SOLD OUT
1LP - SOUNDWAY
2014

BIS => 2024 05 24
7 INCH - GROOVIE RECORDS
1968 => 2014

BIS => 2024 05 24
RED 7" LTD. 100 COPIES
7 INCH - GROOVIE RECORDS
1968 => 2014